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31 PROJECT

BOOTH B11

31 PROJECT is a gallery dedicated to the promotion of African contemporary art scenes through multidisciplinary exhibitions of artists from the continent and the diasporas.

Created in 2019 in Paris by Charles-Wesley-Hourdé and Clémence Houdart, 31 PROJECT is an entity imagined on a flexible model, to react as closely as possible to the current events of the African scenes and report on their vitality. A look that unfolds with a series of exhibitions in their Parisian space as well as in fairs in France and abroad.

Artists presented at AKAA 2022 :
Georgina Maxim, Aviwe Plaatjie, Pierre Segoh

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Georgina Maxim +

Georgina Maxim (1980, Harare) is a textile artist who divides her work between visual art and curatorial practice. For her artistic work, Georgina Maxim turns to textiles and uses the techniques of embroidery, sewing and weaving to deconstruct, cut and recompose second-hand clothing. By doing so, she creates singular works that escape any definition: the artist herself describes her work as an act of memory, a transcription of the present, of those moments lived and of those stories evoked by these used textiles. After being nominated for the Henrike Grohs Award (Goethe Institute, Abidjan), in 2019 Georgina Maxim presents an installation for the Zimbabwean Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. In 2020 she exhibited at the Musée Bargoin (Clermont-Ferrand) and presented her work at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine in 2021. In 2022, Georgina Maxim exhibits at MuCAT in Abidjan and at Somerset House in London.

Dear Fesmeri and Mareni, the dress doesn’t fit IV

2022

110 x 130 cm
Textile
© Nicolas Brasseur
Courtesy Georgina Maxim & 31 PROJECT

8000€
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Maindida III

2022

92 x 67 cm
Textile
© Nicolas Brasseur
Courtesy Georgina Maxim & 31 PROJECT

4500€
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This whole place will become a memory

2021

85 x 135 cm
Textile
© Studio Shapiro
Courtesy Georgina Maxim & 31 PROJECT

8000€
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Aviwe Plaatjie +

A self-taught painter and printmaker, Aviwe Plaatjie (1988, Cape Town) describes himself as a simple observer of his community, capturing those close to him in their everyday environment. By offering a peaceful vision of the township inhabitants, Aviwe Plaatjie paints intimate moments. Time is suspended in his paintings, conducive to reflection and listening. The musical, clothing and cinematographic references are multiple, describing a proud and uninhibited generation with globalized influences. In 2010, he joined the Good Hope Arts Studios collective where he developed his painting practice. He participates in the VANSA mentoring program where he learns printmaking techniques. In 2020 Ebony/Curated organised his first solo show and presented it at 1-54 London. In 2021, he is exhibited by 31 PROJECT at Artissima in Turin and in 2022 in the gallery space in Paris.

When I think about it

2022

161 x 116 cm
Oil on canvas
Courtesy Aviwe Plaatjie et 31 PROJECT

9 000€
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Pierre Segoh +

A self-taught painter, Pierre Segoh (1980, Lomé) unfolds on vast canvases imaginary worlds in a luxuriant personal cosmogony where strange characters cross paths. Through a graphic approach to painting, in love with the line and the motif, his works offer a singular vision of the world, calling upon the artist's own cultural references, while denouncing the economic, migratory and political problems traversing contemporary society as a whole. Exhibited in Togo and internationally, in 2022 he presented his work at the Palais de Lomé and at the African Artists' Foundation in Lagos. He has also been exhibited several times between Ouagadougou and Lomé by the Goethe Institute and the French Institute. Following his residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, he showed his work at AKAA 2017. His works are included in important private and institutional collections, notably that of the Fondation Blachère.

Le premier jugement

2021

105 x 170 cm
Painting on canvas
© 31 PROJECT
Courtesy Pierre Segoh & 31 PROJECT

5500€
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The best game

2021

208 x 110 cm
Painting on canvas
© 31 PROJECT
Pierre Segoh & 31 PROJECT

6500€
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Le Fils de l'Homme

2022

200 x 110 cm
Painting on canvas
© 31 PROJECT
Courtesy Pierre Segoh & 31 PROJECT

6500€
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